Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
NHS nurses move closer to striking ahead of 'summer of action' over pay offer
mirror.co.ukNHS nurses have moved a step closer to striking as they make their unrest clear in a “summer of action”. The Royal College of Nursing is holding demos, rallies and vigils to drum up public support for improving the NHS staff pay rise above the 3% offered by the Government.
Nurses are angry because if inflation rises to 4% by the end of the year their pay rise would end up a real-terms cut. They will stage summer events across the country, including demos in Hove and Liverpool.
The RCN had demanded a fully funded 12.5% “restorative” pay rise after a decade of below-inflation deals under the Tories. How much should the nurses get as a pay rise?
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